About the Author

Andrew Alpern is an attorney, architect, and architectural historian, and the author of eight books. He holds a degree in architecture from Columbia University.

Seymour Durst, a native New Yorker, began his real estate career at his father’s Durst Organization. Mr. Durst is also remembered as the inventor of the “National Debt Clock,” a billboard-sized electronic display on the Durst Organization office building that shows the national debt.